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by scruple 4y ago
I've been inside of 2 such companies. Over time, they both changed (for the worst) and I left (along with many others). My tenure in both was 6.5 years and 8.5 years, respectively. If I had had any degree of confidence that management
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by scruple 4y ago
I use it but it's typically a source of problems to the point that I have to save everything and restart my session. You can have very, very little custom neovim configuration present. My vimrc checks if it's inside of VSCode and
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by scruple 4y ago
I started my career in embedded and I am strongly considering swinging back towards systems work.
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by scruple 4y ago
I used to feel similarly. But (most) businesses today can barely see beyond the next quarter. We're always cutting corners, we're always up against insane deadlines that started as estimates, etc. I'd care a lot more about th
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by scruple 4y ago
FWIW, I started with 2.X back in 2007/2008 and I have decided that my current employer is my last role working in a Rails shop.
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by scruple 4y ago
I have written the same file parser over a dozen times. It's my default project when learning a new language. Sometimes, newer solutions to different parts of the parser, having been discovered in the new language, find their way into
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by scruple 4y ago
Interesting. I've had the opposite experience. On-call was never expected (for software engineers... for Ops people in the NOC, SREs, etc., it was an explicit job requirement) at the larger places I've been inside of, but it has b
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by scruple 4y ago
Same trajectory here. I started with vi(m), used a handful of IDEs along the way, but vi(m) was (is*, if I'm in my terminal and just need to edit a config file or look at some data file, and sometimes even just for reading source, I de
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by scruple 4y ago
> Honestly, one kid was actually manageable; two sort of hit the breaking point (it didn’t help that my work went to hell at the same time), but then we had twins and life now feels basically untenable with both of us working. We have 3
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by scruple 4y ago
Yeah, same, minus the phone bit. I absolutely hate the fucking thing. I keep it around because I need an app for communication with my twins preschool and it's undeniably a better point and shoot camera than most actual point and shoot
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by scruple 4y ago
I genuinely hate how MBA-speak has been adopted seemingly everywhere. I truly, truly hate it. I understand and appreciate that we need a concise set of terminology and jargon to have conversations about these things but these words seem spe
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by scruple 4y ago
Had the same experience with 2 Nexus phones. My Nexus tablets were fine outside of... Every Google Nexus and Pixel device I've owned, going back longer than I can remember, had had sharp battery decline around 16-18 months with not-hea
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by scruple 4y ago
Because the students taking an AP course are motivated to move beyond the 101 level before they even have the opportunity to take the 101 level course. 101 level courses are for people who can't otherwise move passed it through other m
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by scruple 4y ago
No, of course not. He is a programming powerhouse. His projects are monumental. It's astonishing what this one person can get done. At a former employer, I was part of a team of a couple dozen engineers and digital designers who were w
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by scruple 4y ago
> Either we manage to address the economic issues that make independent living unaffordable. Or we rediscover multigenerational households as a virtue. I don't think you have one without the other, personally.
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by scruple 4y ago
> It used to always be about "tricking" the result out of the computer by applying deep understanding of both system and problem to find the fewest, most performant steps required to yield the result. We didn't used to hav
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by scruple 4y ago
I've known a handful of software engineers who have stopped through The Trade Desk for a year or less. It doesn't sound like a great place to work to me, despite the high throughput their software demands.
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by scruple 4y ago
And on the mobile side you cjisyvthroe your hands in the air and claim network latency is the root cause of your performance problems. I spent some time with a team that did this, and what I saw, and tried but failed to fix, was that the pr
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by scruple 4y ago
Many of the game studios near me (I live in Irvine, there's quite a few) test on older hardware as part of their QA process. I don't know what their limits are these days but I remember being impressed by Blizzard when I was visit
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by scruple 4y ago
SF has air strips, military installations, technology, and is a massive economic center for the US at-large. It is a ripe target for any enemy that thinks about these things.
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by scruple 4y ago
That's interesting. I've observed the trend of abruptly ending videos is recently catching on and had been curious about it.
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by scruple 4y ago
This happened to a former employer back in 2008. They sold us on their A-team and we got the guys they hid in the backroom closet. We cancelled the contract after their second code dump. They threatened to sue and my former CEO openly chall
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by scruple 4y ago
This is awesome. Underground is right, I had never done across this before. I played Mtg starting around 1995 until 2001. I've often thought about getting back into it but I also knew I was drawn for a nostalgia of the game that doesn&
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by scruple 4y ago
That's a good point. We lucked out on our timing in 2021, we were looking ahead of the chip shortage, etc.
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by scruple 4y ago
My last 2 vehicle purchases (2014 and 2021) were through internet sales managers. I told them what I wanted, when I was intending to buy, that I had sent the same e-mail to every $MAKE dealership from San Diego to San Francisco, and that wh
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by scruple 4y ago
I had Cartoon Network (I think?) on the television one day when I was creating a character in EQ. The Smurfs was on. Gargamel's nephew (not his nephew, his apprentice, had to look it up after making this comment) was in the episode and
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by scruple 4y ago
I love this book and it's inspired me at least twice that I recall to find a different way to approach solving a difficult problem. Highly, highly recommended, as well.
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by scruple 4y ago
> I definitely cringe when I hear a hipster who's lived here for 2 years try to inject jawn into every conversation. Feels very forced. Yinz [0] has a special place in my heart, because I was born and raised in western PA, but yinze
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by scruple 4y ago
It has nothing to do with anxiety for me, personally, and everything to do with simple courtesy. When my colleagues message me things like this, this is the conversation we have: Colleague: "Hey, do you have a minute to get on a call?&
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by scruple 4y ago
The most successful software project I've ever worked on, in terms of our utility to the business and our customers, as well as personal satisfaction to the team members, was one where myself and a technical PM handled "planning

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